Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > This might not make any difference, but a kernel home-rolled from > linux-source-2.6.25 and booted from lilo works perfectly for me on a >  mobo with an nForce MCP55 chipset. I wouldn't begin to know how to roll my own kernel.. I think I remember trying i

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/23/08 12:41, Wayne Topa wrote: > Paul Cartwright wrote: >> I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, >> 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on >> vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) .

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-07-23 19:41, Wayne Topa wrote: > I'll wait for 2.6.26 before I upgrade again. ISTR 2.6.25 has had 2 > upgrades in the past 2 weeks. I don't know the plans of the kernel team, but this might have to wait till lenny+1... [1] Johannes [1] http

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Paul Cartwright wrote: I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I think is MOST processes were shut

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 12:35:49, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: > > > > > > > > title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 > > > > root(hd0,5) > > > > kernel  /

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: > > > > > > title   Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.25-2-686 > > > root(hd0,5) > > > kernel  /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-686 root=/dev/sda6 ro > > > expertgui i38

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:51:05, Shachar Or wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 18:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: > > > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > > On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > > > > > Check that ACPI is on in th

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 18:36, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > > On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > > > > Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel > > > > boot par

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 18:28:27, Shachar Or wrote: > On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > > > Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot > > > parameter turning off ACPI. > > > > here is the grub menu.lst entry

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:02, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > > Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot > > parameter turning off ACPI. > > here is the grub menu.lst entry that I am booting from: > > title Debian GNU/Linux

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 16:00, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed July 23 2008, Shachar Or wrote: > > Check that ACPI is on in the BIOS setup and that there's no kernel boot > > parameter turning off ACPI. > > how do I check if there is a boot parameter turning off ACPI?? In /boot/grub/menu.lst, th

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 10:06:10, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > does this mean anything? > > > >   > > Not to me, but somebody else might have an idea. Did you try looking > > through the bugs for the respective package? > > how do you find them?? http://bug

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > does this mean anything? > >   > Not to me, but somebody else might have an idea. Did you try looking > through the bugs for the respective package? how do you find them?? -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #124

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > in the OFF button for 6 seconds, to turn it off. It still did it > > yesterday when I went to the 2.6.25-2 kernel. > > what do I look for as far as stuck processes or logs?? > >   > What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 09:21:36, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote:   > > What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/ > > took me a while to figure this out.. in reality, what I have is /etc/rc0.d Sorry, typo... > now what.. > > does this

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed July 23 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > when I went to the 2.6.25-2 kernel. > > what do I look for as far as stuck processes or logs?? > >   > What is the last message? Compare that with the sequence in /etc/rc.0/ > > Regards, > Andrei took me a while to figure this out.. in reality, what I

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,23.Jul.08, 08:27:53, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. > I > don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down > ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after > wha

Re: will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Shachar Or
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:27, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, > 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and > went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says > rebooting, after what

will not reboot

2008-07-23 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have a Dell desktop, Intel Duo Core, 2Gb ram, running Lenny, 2.6.25.2-686. I don't reboot often, but I was recently away on vacation and went to shut down ( then was 2.6.24-1 ) . It gets to a point where it says rebooting, after what I think is MOST processes were shut down, then it just sits

System will not reboot

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
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